Planning sick days off

Just looking at another thread about days off, I was just wondering whether people plan sick days off in advance.

Sometimes I think it's a waste when you can get probably get about 10 extra days holiday sick a year. If you've got man flu or a hangover or something, if you dug deep you could really drag yourself in the office and not waste them.

Definitely a new years resolution to be a bit more foresighted and constructive with sick days.

Never EVER call in sick when you actually are sick, unless you literally can't possibly get up. The main reason being, like you say, it wastes a sick day - which is like a holiday but effectively free. Another reason is you probably won't be doing anything productive at home, and you'll only be bored and won't necessarily feel any better just 'cos you're at home instead of work.
Last but by no means least - third important reason is, you will be seen to be the sort of person who goes to work when he's ill - so when you actually do call in sick, they will think you must be really ill. You are therefore unlikely to ever get questionned.

Never EVER call in sick when you actually are sick, unless you literally can't possibly get up.

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I've kind of been there with that one, and it's a tricky one.

I think I've been genuinely sick once, ever, and that time I kind of felt proud and actually crawled to the phone just to experience for the first time in my life a bit of honesty in the phoning in sick thing.

I never ever get actually sick, it's always just a cold or headache, but it can be a bad flu/migraine.
My first employer got shirty when I phoned him up saying I had a cold. But if I said FLU instead, he was fine with it. Apparently to that company flu was worthy of a day off but a 'cold' wasn't!

He *did* shoot himself, every morning when he had to get up at 8am, find a phone, and ring in again to say he was still sick. And he was over it about half an hour later. I think I was more worried about it than him

Then they might be able to wangle about an extra 50% holidays a year making them both more physically and mentally well

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Life is not meant to be a holiday Abitrary, you are meant to suffer for much of the time. If you don't suffer, then you don't know how well off you are when you are not suffering.
You just don't seem to understand.

Life is not meant to be a holiday Abitrary, you are meant to suffer for much of the time. If you don't suffer, then you don't know how well off you are when you are not suffering.
You just don't seem to understand.

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Wot? I have spent more time in my life working out ways to skive and suffered more crises of conscience over skives, successful or not....

All for the good of people who might not necessarily have the mental capacity or desire to skive.

For those who work on a roster system, there is possibly a system of requesting days off. It takes time to arrange the off-duty, please do not ask us to change it just to suit you after it has been completed. Either find someone to swap with you and then tell us or keep your mouth shut and just take it off.
If I have given you Monday & Tuesday off but you want to change to Friday and it can't be done, it's odds-on that you will be off next Friday!